4.01 avg rating — 48,146 ratings

"Fabulously difficult and worth every bit of the effort! Permanently changed the way I think, like no other book ever has. The highest possible recommendation...and difficulty."

4.13 avg rating — 61,514 ratings

"Erudite, the pinnacle of literary, difficult because we aspire to Mann's genius. Read it three times and still have not got it all. Amazing work."

3.86 avg rating — 195,865 ratings

"All difficulty, obscures the substance, ruins the reading experience, seriously overrated book."

4.29 avg rating — 1,077,557 ratings

"Slow, careful reading reaps huge rewards in psychological insight."

3.99 avg rating — 886,004 ratings

"Circuitous complexity, difficult prose, I think it was worth it, but did it really need to be so hard?"

3.46 avg rating — 98,535 ratings

"Incoherent unintelligible gibberish. One of the all time worst books I've read. Too bad: the subject matter is worth a better treatment."